Chickens on the run at Pollok Park

Gillian Loney

Pollok Park is known for its wildlife — but visitors last week may have caught a glimpse of some new inhabitants thoughtlessly dumped in the woods.

According to countryside rangers, two cardboard boxes of chickens were abandoned in the southside park on Thursday (February 4).

The remains of four birds were found nearby, and park staff were told to be on the lookout for any others wandering the grounds.

Ranger Lynsey Torrance told The Extra: “The two cardboard boxes would have been easily opened by foxes.

“But a small peep of six chickens were spotted in a small wooded area near Knowehead Lodge — near Duke, the park’s resident Clydesdale horse — and, together, the countryside rangers and the livestock team corralled and caught them. It was no easy feat!”